Re: New Hard Drive installed

On 5/21/06, Richard <cms01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 5/21/06, Richard <cms01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Have a second hard drive hdb (slave)
>> however, can't see the listing in/dev?
>
>
> How do you know that this drive is hdb if you dont see a listing under
> /dev?
> Try: ls /dev/hd* to see what's listed there. Or if it';s recognized as
> SCSI look under /dev/sd*
>
>> can't find it, however its there and running
>> so, how does one mount and format the new second drive,
>> that will be used for backups, and storage.
>
>
> Try 'sudo fdisk /dev/hdb' or use gparted or qtparted to write a
> partition table to that drive, divide it up, then get it formatted.
>
> Seth
>
Seth,
This is what I got
ls /dev/hd*
/dev/hda /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda5 /dev/hdc

The second drive is a slave drive it should be hdb, but I don't see?
very odd.


does the kernel sees that hdb drive when the machine is booted?

You should be able to see something in the logs with the dmesg command:
dmesg | grep hdb


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